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I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

I always had good recognition from the Southern writers, but the publishers never took any notice of that.

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.